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House Republicans Introduce Medicaid Reform
A group of House Republican members including Reps. Rokita, Huelskamp, Broun, and Ohio’s Jim Jordan, head of the Republican Study Committee, introduced a comprehensive Medicaid reform measure this...
View ArticleHHS Threatened Arizona Over $7.8 Billion in Medicaid Funding
While the disagreement over the Medicaid mandate to the states was not the largest issue discussed at the Supreme Court this week, one moment during debate deserves attention – the contention by...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Surprise Medicaid Ruling
The Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of PPACA included a shocking 7-2 ruling on the Medicaid expansion, which had been widely viewed on the right as the weakest argument advanced...
View ArticleThe Provider Push for Medicaid Expansion
The primary push for states to accept the Medicaid expansion isn’t going to come from legislators, but from hospitals. You can probably guess why. Hospitals and providers were expecting millions of...
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Is the Medicaid Expansion Fool’s Gold?
As you’ve probably heard by now, at least fifteen governors are leaning toward rejecting the Medicaid expansion as allowed by the Supreme Court: “Seven states with Republican governors have given a...
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The Reasons States Are Rejecting Obama’s Medicaid Expansion
Over the past week, we’ve heard from a wide variety of liberal sources amazed at the idea that states would reject the billions in “free money” from the federal government to expand their Medicaid...
View ArticleRGA Chair Sends Thirty Questions on Implementation to HHS
You should read this letter from Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell which lays out a litany of questions from the states to U.S. HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius on exchange implementation and Medicaid. There are...
View ArticleThe Medicaid Albatross
Paul Volcker and Richard Ravitch report on the fiscal crisis facing the states, with a familiar culprit involved. From the WSJ: This state-federal program that increasingly pays for middle-class health...
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Is Your State Expanding Medicaid?
Above is an updated version of our map outlining which states are leaning toward, or leaning away from, expanding Medicaid under PPACA. Below the fold, the following list was provided by the fine...
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Why Paul Ryan’s Medicaid Reform Works
The selection of Congressman Paul Ryan as the vice presidential nominee for the Republican ticket has brought the issue of Medicare reform to the forefront of people’s minds. But Medicaid is next up,...
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